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John Bolton

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John Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, and political commentator who served as the National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Bolton has held various significant positions in the U.S. government, including U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006. He is known for his hawkish foreign policy views and has been a prominent advocate for a strong U.S. military presence abroad.

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Jun 16, 2021

Trump used the question of classified information purely as a pretext to try and suppress a book he did not want to come out before the November 2020 election. My book did go through a pre-publication review process. It was cleared his…

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Feb 8, 2021

I think you have to give the framers of the Constitution, some credit here, they understood when they set the mechanism up that presidents had defined terms.

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Feb 8, 2021

The incorrect decision and in respect of the first impeachment was made by the House advocates of impeachment, they rushed it, they limited the scope of it.

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Feb 8, 2021

I think the way you look at both Article 1 Section 3 and Article 2 Section 4 is that to get to the question of disqualification, you have to lay the predicate first of impeachment, and then trial and conviction.

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Nov 10, 2020

This coddling strategy is exactly backward. The more Republican leaders kowtow, the more Trump believes he is still in control, and the less likely he will do what normal Presidents do.

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Sep 29, 2020

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I don't think he has any philosophy at all. He's not motivated by policy or strategy. He's motivated by what's good for Donald Trump.

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Sep 29, 2020

The Democrats badly mismanaged the impeachment process. They believed that, if they could impeach Trump, they could inflict political damage on him, and it would inhibit him from this conduct in the future.

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Sep 29, 2020

I don't think Trump should get another term, that, when you make a criticism, that there are facts to support it, and not just speculation.

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Jun 16, 2020

I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think Putin is smart, tough. I think he sees that -- he's not faced with a serious adversary here. I don't think he's worried about Donald Trump.

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Jan 29, 2020

All of them acted in the best interest of the country as they saw it and consistently to what they thought are policies were.

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Dec 8, 2019

Mr. Giuliani was a, quote, 'hand grenade who's going to blow everybody up,' unquote.

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Nov 25, 2019

It probably goes without saying that our country's commitment to our national security priorities is under attack from within. America is distracted. Our enemies are not. We need to make us national security a priority.

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May 27, 2019

When Bolton said the North Koreans are in violation of the U.N. Security Council resolutions, Bolton was correct. His analysis was correct. The president was just wrong.

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May 27, 2019

Bolton has publicly advocated attacking North Korea and Iran before he was national security adviser. He's called for regime change in Venezuela.

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Jan 6, 2019

We're going to be discussing the President's decision to withdraw, but to do so from Northeast Syria in a way that makes sure that ISIS is defeated and is not able to revive itself.

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Oct 22, 2018

National Security Adviser John Bolton, the President said he had been discussing a second summit during meetings in Moscow.

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Sep 26, 2018

Russia's planned sale of S-300 air defense systems to the Assad regime represents a significant escalation.

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Sep 25, 2018

The United States intends to keep an indefinite military presence in Syria until Iran withdraws its forces.

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Sep 17, 2018

the Trump administration is "very, very early in the process of considering" what it wants to do about the New START Treaty

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Jul 24, 2018

the meeting would be better after, 'the Russia witch hunt is over.'

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May 23, 2018

We have very much in mind the Libyan model of 2003-2004.

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